“The strange thing is, everything washed up from the sea was purified. Useless junk, but absolutely clean. There wasn’t a dirty thing.
The sea is special in that way. When I look back over my life so far, I see all that junk on the beach.
It’s how my life has always been. Gathering up the junk, sorting through it, and then casting it off somewhere else.
All for no purpose, leaving it to wash away again.”
© Haruki Murakami «Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World»